Heart attacks trigger a cascade of reactions in the body, and certain immune cells may worsen the damage by disrupting heart ...

White blood cells (WBC), also known as leukocytes, are colorless, round cells with a very distinct nucleus when compared with the other cells in the body. Without WBC humans will be prone to a lot of ...

Your immune system is a network of cells, tissues, and organs that fight off infection. Your immune system can be affected by ...

The immune system is one of the most intricate systems in the body and plays a vital role in keeping children healthy.

The prize-winning work explains how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body's own cells.

The team used human stem cells to create embryo-like structures dubbed “hematoids” that mirror some features of early human ...

White blood cells are important foot soldiers in the immune system, but their numbers can be cut by health conditions or treatments like chemotherapy. Yale scientists have now discovered a molecule ...

Blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma often begin in the bone marrow and disrupt normal blood cell formation.

In a groundbreaking study of people living with HIV, University of Alberta researchers found that elusive white blood cells called neutrophils play a role in impaired T cell functions and counts, as ...

CNL is a rare type of cancer that causes an increased production of neutrophils. It is a type of myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN). MPNs are blood cancers that start with problems in a stem cell in ...